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Dr. Jing TANG
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor University of Copenhagen
My research focuses on understanding terrestrial ecosystem dynamics and associated feedbacks under changing climate. I have primarily specialised in process-based ecosystem modelling, and have extensive experience in developing and applying different models, and also integrating observation-based data for different modelling purposes and/or answering different research questions.
My research background includes:
studying processes regulating ecosystem fluxes of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) and CO2, and quantifying biochemical feedbacks of BVOC and CO2 fluxes to the atmosphere; and
exploring vegetation-water-carbon interactions within terrestrial ecosystems and process interactions between land and aquatic ecosystems with the linkage of soil-leached dissolved matters.
Contact me: Jing.Tang@ bio.ku.dk; lu.gistangjing@gmail.com Twitter: @LundJing
Current members
Marta Contreras Serrano
University of Copenhagen, PhD student (09/2023-)
My research explores how arctic plant photosynthesis activities and BVOC emissions acclimate to different growing temperatures and how acclimation processes influence plant responses to different strengths of heatwaves?
I conduct fieldwork and laboratory experiments to answer these questions, and the derived response curves will be integrated into the dynamic ecosystem model, LPJ-GUESS, to assess the large-scale impacts of these thermal responses.
Ida Roos Friis
University of Copenhagen, PhD student (04/2024-)
I am looking at land-lake interactions in the pan-Arctic to understand how these dynamics affect catchment- and regional-scale C dynamics. Currently I am working on introducing a lake module to the LPJ-GUESS model by integrating the biogeochemical lake model, ALBM. I am also working with field data (biogeochemical variables from lakes and surroundings) from different locations to evaluate model results. Lastly I aim to quantify lakes' contribution to the terrestrial C balance in the pan-Arctic, now and in the future.
Hongliang Ma
University of Copenhagen, Postdoc (09/2024-)
My interests include remote sensing for terrestrial ecological key parameters (i.e., soil moisture, vegetation water, biomass and temperature), and couplings with ecosystem models
Shouzhi Chen
Beijing Normal University, co-supervised PhD student (2022-)
My main research focus is developing spring and autumn phenology module in LPJ-GUESS and assessing the effects of vegetation dynamics on cross-scale ecohydrological processes under climate change.
Wim Verbruggen University of Copenhagen, Postdoc (07/2025-)
I mostly used dynamic vegetation models, for example to analyze how dryland ecosystems respond to extreme events, and to unravel the climatic drivers behind year-to-year variability in dryland ecosystem functioning. I also did a bit of field work in Senegal and worked with remote sensing data. A few years ago, I finally migrated full-time to København for my first postdoc at IGN’s Geography section, during which I continued my drylands research, more focusing on improving the soil hydrology and its coupling with plant hydraulics in vegetation models. For my current postdoc project I mostly work on modelling terrestrial ecosystem BVOC fluxes, from the Arctic all the way up to the global level. I will integrate observations of BVOC fluxes with ecosystem models and study how these fluxes vary with global change, for example under more intense drought conditions or increasing temperatures.
Zhenqian Wang University of Copenhagen, Postdoc (06/2025-)
My background is in climate dynamics and Earth system modelling. I’m currently working on integrating BVOC emissions into EC-Earth to study their feedback on the climate system.
I am familiar with ESM EC-Earth and dynamic vegetation model, LPJ-GUESS. I have contributed eight simulations to CMIP6/PMIP4 and am currently involved in CMIP7.
Alumni
Dr. Hao Zhou Lund University, co-supervised PhD student (2020-2025)
Thesis title: Improving the representation of hydrology in a terrestrial ecosystem model, with applications at catchment to global scales.
Dr. Daniel Thomas University of Copenhagen, Postdoc 2023-2024
Reserach focus on atmospheric aerosols and their relation to climate change. I specialise in Arctic aerosol dynamics, aerosol-radiation interactions, climate modelling, and the radiative effects of black carbon
Dr. Qi Guan University of Copenhagen, PhD student 2019-2023
Thesis title: Impacts of land processes on lake eutrophication in China. - Cropland management, human activities, and climate change
Dr. Didac Pascual Lund University, PhD student 2018-2022
Thesis title: The Torneträsk System - A basis for predicting future subarctic ecosystems
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